Is Pippa Middleton Moving to the Upper East Side? Her Romp Around Her (Possibly Maybe) New ’Hood

Could this be Pippa's future Upper East Side apartment building?, Left, by Harold David S./Splash News; right, by Ray Tamarra/Getty Images.

In a twice-weekly report on London's regal rumpus, VF.com’s Royal Watch plucks the best of the city’s tabloid news for your reading pleasure.

Regular readers of this space will remember our #pippaplacement social-media campaign, muscular and dignified in its journalistic integrity, to guess which Manhattan neighborhood Pippa Middleton would soon occupy after her rumored move to N.Y.C. We almost all guessed someplace downtown (though our favorite hammy guess was “Queens!”). But, readers—we all were wrong. Maybe. Instead of an industrial aerie in Tribeca or a few floors of a rosy-brick West Village town house, Pippa was spotted striding into an Upper East Side residential building with a companion whom photo agency Splash News identifies as a realtor. The photos—reported to be taken on the Upper East Side—show Middleton entering an elevator building with a welcome mat emblazoned with address number 630. So, 630 Park? If yes, fashion bonus for the middle Middleton, who has been working neon dresses and wicker Kate Spade while Stateside: she’d be a stone’s throw from Barneys.

She’s reportedly here to prep for the release of her hostessing book, Celebrate, and the celebrating has already begun, in a very Bergdorf Blondes–sounding way. She’s been on a Le Bernardin date with a preppy Harvard grad/former Goldman analyst, flown in one of Andre Balaz’s sea planes to the Hamptons and back, had breakfast on the U.E.S. near her reported hotel, the Carlyle, and gone roller-blading in Central Park. She was also spotted chumming it up with Chace Crawford at the Electric Room, and last night began her 29th-birthday celebrations at the U.S. Open. Wearing an attention-grabbing yellow dress by Phase Eight, a frumpy. . . conservativeBritish brand catering more to your mother’s demographic than your own, Pippa directed her sartorial sunshine toward Andy Murray and made him win, according to the tabs.

Meanwhile, back in the U.K., big sister Kate is experiencing a complete lack of the usual media frenzy. The duchess was reportedly shopping in Funsport, a water-sports retailer near her home in Anglesey. After sussing out a suit, she realized she’d forgotten her wallet, and asked store owner Dave Buckland if he could hold the piece and she would pop back in and pick it up and pay later. As the story goes, he then produced a pen and took down her name, which she dictated as “Mrs. Cambridge”; he then commented that it was a rather unusual surname.